Ted's New Realm

Just finished the Toefl this afternoon, from 10 am to 14:10 pm. 

It was correct that I arrived 10 minutes earlier when the door of the test center hadn't been open.
As long as completing the registration process, the time prior to the test was yours. 

Just read through a passage as below,

"Do not fear failure. Do not let negative experiences - and there are always plenty - get in your way. In your life, many things - especially the biggest heartbreaks - will only make sense as you look back, not as you are experiencing them. Many of what seem at the time to be your biggest setbacks will end up leading to your biggest opportunities and in ways you can't predict. So don't let that voice of doubt - the obnoxious roommate in your head - have the last word. As Montaigne said, 'There were many terrible things in my life, but most of them never happened.'" 
- Arianna Huffington, Editor-in-Chief, Huffington Post Media Group

2號 said just now that he has many discussions in the morning, afternoon, and at night tomorrow which should be his only day-off in weekdays, and 3號 said he's writing a report, too. 

Looking at them being so busy and occupied, I am so afraid and even terrified with my heartbeats pounding feebly. I've never been so dedicated to anything over the past four years in college. And, I know I would not be able to do the same as back in high school. Or, I should put it this way. I am fearful of making changes, esp when uncertainty inundates me, to my accustomed current life. Perhaps, but I am actually affirmative, it's because I want to have my time only with my beloved ones.     

心態調整好、別想太多
向前走就是了   
無論結果如何, 這也只不過是人生中短短的一個階段---

暑假第二次來到台中

這次總共有4天

前面的一天半

我跟林居燁下去

這個暑假去了兩次台中

第一次是兩天一夜

我、李明憲和切腿三個人去

我們到了台中、租機車完車後, 我們中餐去吃輕井澤

The first half of my extended year at college has started. Being a so-called “延修生” is really not recommendable at all. During the breaks btw classes it is so damn boring because there’s none I can talk to. Also, the school policy states that the dept secretary cannot take courses into the system for people like me, so I am offered no alternative but to add courses manually. But this is not the most annoying matter. The teacher of the course Multimedia-Assisted Teaching doesn’t want to sign my adding sheet. Shit. I swear I’ll give her “Very Unsatisfying” for each item in the evaluation at the end of the semester!

 I finally get started to study toefl. Finally, finally! I’ve been saying that I am so restless and worried now since I don’t know exactly what my level is now. I can only know it by taking a real test but how can I take the test without preparing anything. One test is very costly, some 165 US dollars!    My English Goddess please bless me, if you are still there. PLEASE

 

This is the most weird, or most lonely, Mid Autumn Festival I’ve ever had. Friends are either enrolled in the army, working, or starting their graduate school. Each single of them are busy, esp those graduate students.    I went to see the pictures in the album of Wretch. We were so young that the faces in the photos were not the same as they are now. I think we will never go on a trip, five of us, together anymore. It’s such a sad thing to look at. And, if the MIIS is really that easy to get in as Cindy said, I won’t be in Taiwan for two years and I may not come back during summer because this will be a rare opportunity to explore the States. Of course it will be a joke when no school accepts me. But still, we can never be like the past us. 

I just accomplished a feat in my life!
I finished the very very first Japanese writing after having been learning Japanese for over two years. It is written as a response to a reading text on page 56 in the book Minna No Nihongo Intermediate II. 

Below is my writing

It’s August 16 now, one month and a day ahead of the fall semester of my extended year. Two months, in other words, have passed. Two thirds of the summer evaporated. 

In the coming semester I will have only 6 credits of three courses. Each on Wed, Thur, and Fri respectively, so I will have been going to school for a two-hour class and travel back home on the three days. Couldn’t find a way to schedule them on one single dayL

 

Starting a dozen of days ago I search for houses for sale within budget and of convenient transportation. I’m so desperate to move out of this pigpen-like rental house.

The question strikes me more and more often and gradually strongly each time within these weeks. “Should I continue the decision to go to graduate school?” I got so slothful and have been lax in studying for a whole month.

Originally, there was “finally” a spark of re-opening the books that had been left far behind, but now it is gone after I went to Taichung and Nantou this Mon and Tue, Aug 6 and7.

Exemption from military service was announced after I received a re-checkup because the weight scale was revised rather loosely. The exemption makes me “a free man” who isn’t forced to go to the “concentration camp” like a Nazi one next year if I am not admitted to any single graduate school. In other words, I can go to work right after graduation without wasting a year being a fool in the army.